The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-09
1t Is Certainly Ugly.

Boston Letter to the Providence Journal
1t was my good fortune to be seated one
| pleasant afternoon recently on a beautiful
| lawn overlooking most exquisite sweep of
country My chair was placed near that of
| the mistress of the country scat where | was
calling, and on the lawn were her two grown
| up daughters. They are both lovely girls,
| well-cducated, accomplished, faultlessly
| dressed and thoroughly accustomed to the
! best society both i'll this country and abroad ;
| yet the mother sighed as she watched them
walk across the lawn 20 gather a bunch of
yellow lilies which were blooming in great
clusters below the hedge
did you ever see anything so ugly as the
way those girls walk" she asked.
l was able to say truthfully that I had
seen a good many uglier things.
They walk like camels," she declared,
| ignoring my disclaimer.
| should certainly not have thought of
owning it, but one could not but be struck
by the force and truthfulness of her COM
parison. They did walk like camels. They
| could sing divinely; they play the piano ex-
| tremely well; one sketches very prettily
| while the other is no mean performer on the
violin; French, German and Italian they
read easily and speak at least well enough
to make themselves Ineligible to persons
who know the single tongue to which they
We're born; and in literature they have an
interest which has led them to read with
very considerable appreciation the master
pieces of two or three countries But with
all these accomplishments the fact remains
that they cannot walk well. They hold
their elbows by their sides and wiggle them
selves forward in a fashion which would be
most painful to see, were it not that we are
all so accustomed to this method of locomo-
ton that we have almost come to regard it
as the normal one
81 do wish,n my hostess continued, 'that
somebody would establish a walking school.
We are all so sophisticated nowadays that
we can do nothing simply and naturally,
and walking must be learned like anything
else, if there were only somebody to teach
it,
"But dancing school" suggested, with a
conspicuous lack Of originality fought to
do something IN that line"
"Oh, no doubt was the response; "but it
doesn't. 1t is "A popular faliacy that if
girl can dance she must know how TO walk,
but it is nonsense. Elsie dances like a sylph,
but, as / said, she walks like u camel. She
has been taught 10 dance, and she hasn't
been taught to walk
''But who is there to teachP'
THAT is just the question. There ought
TO be somebody. You know how Miss Blank
teaches whist"
yes said.
Miss Blank Is clever young woman, of
fine old Boston family, who, finding herself
in need of earning her living, had the ori-
ginality to hit upon the unique method of
teaching whist as Il means of doing it, She
has plenty of pupils, 1t is said, and does her
work well enough 20 deserve them.
Now, why continued my companion,
docs not somebody who is nice and lady
and needs TO earn living take TO teaching
girls to walki I'm sure she'd make lot OF
money and be comforting great benefit on
the community as well / declare she
went on, her eye kndling with the earnest
ness OF her purpose, II am going to try and
find somebody and have the thing started
next fall. 1t is something we really need,
and it is time we had IL. y
Whether this scheme will be carried out
it would be too much to undertake to say
but the idea is not bad one, and certain'
there is room enough for a walking school
here